Crazy: Republicans agreed to lopsided health care gunfight

Please sit down. You may find this letter to be a disconcerting. I have to ask my dear Republican friends if they are crazy.

I am more angry with the Republicans for attending the health care sideshow with President Obama than I am with the Democrats. Stupid move! Tactically insane. In the end, Obama and the Dems had almost 3:1 air time, with Obama making a 20-plus-minute closing, non-rebutted argument.

My analogy: You are challenged to a gunfight. Your opponent gets to have three bullets to every one of yours. Your foe has the ability to tell you when you can and cannot shoot and in what direction you aim. Finally, your antagonist is permitted to shoot at you for 20 minutes at the end of the duel and you are not permitted to return fire.